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Pixelated profile view of a person wearing dark hair and a black cap, facing left against a muted background.

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Pixelated profile view of a person wearing dark hair and a black cap, facing left against a muted background.

Pixelated profile view of a person wearing dark hair and a black cap, facing left against a muted background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Composition

  • profile view
  • centered subject
  • no visible background objects

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image showing a side-profile view of an individual with short dark hair. The subject wears a solid black cap with no visible markings or logos. Skin tone appears light brown in the pixels. Background consists of blended beige and olive-green tones without distinct shapes or objects. Image exhibits low-resolution digital rendering typical of early 2000s buddy icons, with blocky pixelation across all elements including facial features, hair, clothing, and background.

Description

  • Pixelated profile view of a person wearing dark hair and a black cap, facing left against a muted background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711151542302099721899

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person side profile black cap
  • pixelated dark hair beige background
  • low resolution digital rendering
  • beige olive green background pixels

Wordwall

  • side-profile view
  • dark hair
  • black cap
  • light brown skin tone
  • beige background
  • olive-green background
  • pixelated rendering
  • low-resolution digital image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711151542302099721899
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/63/6317f3a484d4699fea275e6c5b2fd95e6a4271ffa3bf87751d3dc9597387b8ec.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 UTC
Archive ID
6317f3a484d4699f
SHA-256
6317f3a484d4699fea275e6c5b2fd95e6a4271ffa3bf87751d3dc9597387b8ec
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:41 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090482

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Pixelated profile view of a person wearing dark hair and a black cap, facing left against a muted background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 18:39 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,598 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 629

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • olive green (color, 0.80)
  • cap (object, 0.80)
  • buddy icon style (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital rendering (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • beige
  • olive-green
  • light brown

Composition

  • profile view
  • centered subject
  • no visible background objects

Dense Caption

Static pixelated image showing a side-profile view of an individual with short dark hair. The subject wears a solid black cap with no visible markings or logos. Skin tone appears light brown in the pixels. Background consists of blended beige and olive-green tones without distinct shapes or objects. Image exhibits low-resolution digital rendering typical of early 2000s buddy icons, with blocky pixelation across all elements including facial features, hair, clothing, and background.

Description

  • Pixelated profile view of a person wearing dark hair and a black cap, facing left against a muted background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711151542302099721899

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person side profile black cap
  • pixelated dark hair beige background
  • low resolution digital rendering
  • beige olive green background pixels

Objects

  • cap

Style

  • pixel art
  • buddy icon style
  • low-resolution digital rendering

Subjects

  • person

Wordwall

  • side-profile view
  • dark hair
  • black cap
  • light brown skin tone
  • beige background
  • olive-green background
  • pixelated rendering
  • low-resolution digital image
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
200711151542302099721899
Archive entry
200711151542302099721899.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711151542302099721899.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711151542302099721899.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016